Games like Reverse Crawl
If Reverse Crawl is your kind of game, the closest matches are Shieldwall Chronicles: Swords of the North, Fuga: Melodies of Steel 3 and Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its cute and humorous writing, meaningful tactical positioning matters and chill. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Reverse Crawl: A dungeon crawl where YOU are the dungeon! Lead your minions in tactical turn-based combat against the pesky heroes, and unlock a variety of evil Powers. With a dynamic campaign system and a branching storyline, "Reverse Crawl" lets you experience an RPG from a whole new angle!
Players who liked Reverse Crawl also play
Steam players who put hours into Reverse Crawl also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Shieldwall Chronicles: Swords of the North
WHY THIS
Top pick for Reverse Crawl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Reverse Crawl.
Shieldwall Chronicles: Swords of the North is a gripping, tactical RPG that lets you build a powerful band of adventurers and partake in a grand adventure.
Fuga: Melodies of Steel 3
WHY THIS
Shares new game plus and a whimsical mood with Reverse Crawl.
Second-strongest match for Reverse Crawl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Reverse Crawl.
The dramatic RPG Fuga: Melodies of Steel series is now complete!
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Reverse Crawl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Reverse Crawl.
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark is a turn-based tactical RPG with a focus on storytelling and strategic battles. Unfold a mature story as you progress through hand-crafted scenarios, controlling your own group of Arbiters, with each character customizable from a wide selection of classes and abilities!
Fuga: Melodies of Steel 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Reverse Crawl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Reverse Crawl.
The sequel to the captivating tale of Fuga: Melodies of Steel has arrived! This turn-based RPG is back with a ramped up battle system for more strategy, as well as a brand new event system that gives you more thrilling choices to affect your experience!
Dungeon Rushers
WHY THIS
Shares a lighthearted mood with Reverse Crawl.
Ranked #5 for Reverse Crawl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Reverse Crawl.
A Heroic-Parody tactical RPG combining dungeon crawler’s gameplay and turn-based fights. Dive in an off-beat universe, manage your team and craft mighty gear to equip them! Build your own dungeon by hiding traps and monsters in your galleries, then challenge other players to clean it!
The Last Spell
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Reverse Crawl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Reverse Crawl.
Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.
The Banner Saga 3
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Reverse Crawl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Reverse Crawl.
Banner Saga 3 is the epic conclusion to a sweeping viking saga six years in the making. This strategic RPG, acclaimed for its strong story and compelling characters has won over 20 awards and been nominated for 4 BAFTA awards.
Pathway
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Reverse Crawl fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Reverse Crawl.
Explore the strange unknown with Pathway, a strategy adventure set in the 1930s great wilderness. Unravel long-forgotten mysteries of the occult, raid ancient tombs and outwit your foes in turn-based squad combat!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Reverse Crawl at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Reverse Crawl on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Reverse Crawl.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Reverse Crawl on Steam right now. Shares Action with Reverse Crawl.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Reverse Crawl on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and RPG with Reverse Crawl.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Reverse Crawl on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Reverse Crawl.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Reverse Crawl on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Reverse Crawl.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Reverse Crawl on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Reverse Crawl.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Super Hexagon
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Reverse Crawl on Steam right now. Shares Action with Reverse Crawl.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Nodebuster
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Reverse Crawl on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Reverse Crawl.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Reverse Crawl.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Reverse Crawl.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Reverse Crawl.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Nerdook Productions
Other recommendable Steam games by Nerdook Productions, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Monster Slayers
WHY THIS
Shares a lighthearted mood with Reverse Crawl.
Another title from Nerdook Productions, the studio behind Reverse Crawl. Shares Action with Reverse Crawl.
Monster Slayers is a rogue-like deck-building RPG adventure. Create a hero and choose your path through the perilous Northern Valley as you battle to become a true Monster Slayer.
Rogue AI Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Reverse Crawl.
Another title from Nerdook Productions, the studio behind Reverse Crawl. Shares Strategy and RPG with Reverse Crawl.
Play as a Rogue Artificial Intelligence, in the sequel to the hit Flash game "I'm an Insane Rogue AI", played more than 4 million times! Your Prime Directive is simple: design a facility & manage human Test Subjects for the Dept of Science. But be careful: they NEVER stop being suspicious of you...
Vertical Drop Heroes HD
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Reverse Crawl.
Another title from Nerdook Productions, the studio behind Reverse Crawl. Shares Action and RPG with Reverse Crawl.
Vertical Drop Heroes is a procedural platformer RPG hybrid with roguelike elements, where your hero adventures through randomly generated stages. Armed with a variety of skills and traits, you must use your cunning and reflexes to survive the dangers of each stage.
The Magister
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Reverse Crawl.
Another title from Nerdook Productions, the studio behind Reverse Crawl. Shares Action and Adventure with Reverse Crawl.
The Magister is a murder-mystery card-battler RPG. Build and customise your deck to fight in battles, or use ‘Tactical Diplomacy’ to pacify those who stand in your way. Gather clues and discover motives as you investigate the death of your predecessor and unmask the guilty culprit.
The Magister - The First Two Days
WHY THIS
Another title from Nerdook Productions, the studio behind Reverse Crawl. Shares Action and Adventure with Reverse Crawl.
The Magister: The First Two Days gives you the chance to begin your investigation in this murder-mystery card-battler RPG. Build and customize your deck to fight in battles, or use ‘Tactical Diplomacy’ to pacify those who stand in your way. Gather clues and investigate the death of your predecessor!
Kill A Million Rats
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Reverse Crawl.
Another title from Nerdook Productions, the studio behind Reverse Crawl. Shares Action and Strategy with Reverse Crawl.
A base-building, Roguelike Action/Turn-based Strategy (RATS) game, in a forest invaded by a million Rats. As the powerful Spirit of Vengeance, you must save the adorable Villagers! Explore a randomly generated world, expand your village, and exterminate the Rats!
Rogue AI: Idle Domination
WHY THIS
Another title from Nerdook Productions, the studio behind Reverse Crawl. Shares Strategy with Reverse Crawl.
A Rogue A.I. simulator that sits at the bottom of your screen. Take over the world while taking care of other tasks!
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and RPG with Reverse Crawl.
Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark is a turn-based tactical RPG with a focus on storytelling and strategic battles. Unfold a mature story as you progress through hand-crafted scenarios, controlling your own group of Arbiters, with each character customizable from a wide selection of classes and abilities!
Fuga: Melodies of Steel 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and RPG with Reverse Crawl.
The sequel to the captivating tale of Fuga: Melodies of Steel has arrived! This turn-based RPG is back with a ramped up battle system for more strategy, as well as a brand new event system that gives you more thrilling choices to affect your experience!
The Last Spell
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Strategy with Reverse Crawl.
Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.
Frequently asked about Reverse Crawl
- Does Reverse Crawl run on Steam Deck?
- Reverse Crawl is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Reverse Crawl cost?
- Reverse Crawl is listed on Steam at 5.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Reverse Crawl?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Reverse Crawl are Shieldwall Chronicles: Swords of the North, Fuga: Melodies of Steel 3, Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark.
- Who developed Reverse Crawl?
- Reverse Crawl was developed by Nerdook Productions.
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